Once again I am back in McDonalds! I sitll don't have access to the internet in my room yet, I shoudl ave it in a week though so I can't wait. It means my evenings will be more interesting as I can actually do things apart from playing Freecell while listening to my music (which I was doing for 2 weeks).
I thought I would write a little bit about the random happenings that I have found in Strasbourg. Firstly, I should mention that on the tram stops, each one has their own little jingle. For example, one is some music, another is the soudn of children and so on. But approaching the European Parliament I thought I heard it say sugi no eki 過ぎの駅 and I kind of sat there for a minute thinking "was that really just Japanese, or has my time in Japan got me thinking and translating things into Japanese in my head?"
Last night, after a long time on McWifi (as I will now call it) I left to go home. When I stepped outside there was a girl who came up to me and she asked "Do you speak English?" How lucky she was. She had literally just got off of the tram from the airport and was looking for an accommodation. The trouble is she didn't speak French. So being the nice person I am I helped her find the place and get to her room and things (it was complicated to get into the building...) and so I made a new friend! Albeit randomly.
The last piece of randomity I want to mention happened today. Because there has been so much confusion and lack of information from my university in Strasbourg, I havn't yet chosen classes for sure. And I havn't been to any. So I thought new week, new start to a happier Strasbourg life. So I went along to go to the class I want to take today and maybe talk to the teacher a bit. So I went there, went in, spoke a little with the French girls sat there and waited. The teacher didn't show up. Another girl who takes the class came in and basically told us there is no class because the teachers are on strike. So...I have no class. And of course no one knows how long this strike will go on so I might not have class next week either. But, I at least managed to get the names of the novels I need to buy/read for that class. They havn't started reading them yet in class though so it's all good!
Oh yes, it also snowed in the night so there is snow everywhere! And not like puny English snow but like a nice even blanket that is not melting or anything. So that means it's COLDer than it should be.
My final note, I just uploaded the latest video blog to youtube so check it out! It is my adventure trying to find where my university is. I embedded the video above but if you can't see it then the url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYk05z6XZ8Y
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